Bathurst Gold Crown Carnival: Smooth Satin Cup victory one of four winning drives for Turnbull

It came after the The Lagoon trainer-driver had guided Ellmers Image - a gelding her mother Jenny part-owns - to victory in the Smooth Satin Cup (2,260 metres).

It was one of four winners Turnbull steered on the second night of the Bathurst Harness Racing Club's 2021 Gold Crown Carnival and took her overall tally for the annual event to six successful drives.

Turnbull began the carnival last Wednesday night by qualifying both Russell Jack's Captains Queen and Tony Higgs' Silk Cloud for the $100,000 Group 1 Gold Tiara Final for two-year-old fillies.

On Friday night Turnbull qualified another of Jack's team - this time Nineteenth Man - for a Group 1 Final when guiding the two-year-old colt to victory in his Gold Crown heat.

With just over 400m to go Turnbull punched forward from the rear of the field with the $9 chance, steering him four wide to take the lead down the home straight.

It's little wonder the Lemnos trainer has high praise for her.

"She's the best at it. Her record speaks for itself and yes, she's having a big carnival," Jack said.

"He [Nineteenth Man] went very good, he came from last. He was actually last at the 400 and I was giving him no hope, but he finishes off pretty good."

Just over half an hour after Turnbull won that Gold Crown heat for Jack she took out another, this time aboard the Clayton Tonkin, Cardigan trained colt Lightning Dan.

She steered $8 outsider Kylies Life to victory in the Bathurst Trotters Cup for Riverstone trainer Joseph Pace, that success the biggest in the 61-start career of the six-year-old mare.

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But the win aboard Ellmers Image was arguably the sweetest given he is member of Turnbull's own team, he's part-owned by her mother and that the namesake of the annual feature race - Smooth Satin - was a star for her father Steve.

Going from barrier nine with the $1.90 favourite in the 2,260 metres cup, Turnbull was not part of the early speed battle as a line of five vied for the lead.

It was Firestorm Red who took front spot, but behind him Ellmers Image began a three wide move. He faced the breeze down the back straight before finally managing to hit the front with a lap to travel.

Ellmers Image then burned through a 27.1 seconds third sectional and turned for home with the lead. Bernie Hewitt's Make Mine Heaven ($3.50) tried hard to catch the favourite, but Turnbull's runner did enough to win by 1.8m.

It handed Turnbull back-to-back Smooth Satin Cup wins, having driven Atomic Red ($1.22 favourite) to victory for her father-trainer Steve last year. She was also the victorious driver in the feature in 2016 (Betabcool) and 2014 (My Dusky Sound).

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